Another reason to steer well away from the “Biden for President” bandwagon
Joe Biden (S-De) doesn't believe that it's legally possible for Congress to put a stop to Maximum Leader Genius's excellent adventure in Afghanistan|Iraq|Somalia|etc. Most lefty pundits think that this is just a case of Joe Biden being the very model of a stereotypical Stupid Party Senator, but I'm not so sure. He is, after all, planning on running for President, and I'm sure that the thought of "wouldn't it be cool to have the entire US armed forces at my command with no way for anyone to stop me?" has crept through his brain.
He is, after all, one of the people who voted for the odious "bankruptcy reform" bill that delivered many many victims to the lairs of the loan sharking credit card industry (many of which, by a happy coincidence, happen to show up in the state of Delaware.) If there was a chance that he could be the one in charge of the sort of massive asset-stripping scheme that the B*sh junta is presently inflicting on the United States (the slaughter of 100s of thousands of Iraqi citizens? It's just to provide cover while friends of the B*sh junta carry truckloads of cash out of the US coffers. The only personal involvement that Maximum Leader Genius has with Iraq is that it provides him with stuff movies that he can jerk off to, and he's already got that with the US gulag,) why, just imagine what the resulting campaign contributions would look like.
He'd be one strike against the new Stupid Party-controlled Senate, except that I already knew that the Democrats in the Senate are, by and large, every bit as amoral and corrupt as the Republicans are, and the best Harry Reid can do is to keep them from making a complete mess of whatever comes out of the House. It would have been nice if the Stupid Party could have taken another 10 senate seats (not actually possible, given the distressingly large pro-torture chunk of the US electorate [a chunk that reliably votes for the Evil Party, as opposed to the people who loudly support liberal values in polls, but never bother to get off their fat butts and actually vote for representatives who will keep those values going]) but as it stands I'll have to put up with the Washington lifer stupidity brigade's inane prattle while hoping that the Senate majority whip can beat some sense into them when it comes time for a vote.
But that whip wouldn't help if old Joe was in the White House, so it's good that he can make a fool out of himself when he's not in a position to take advantage of his pro-despotism leanings.